Tober

108 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tober, from 11 m² to 560,127 m² (56.01 ha, 138.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Tober in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Jul 2023Conditional

  DOMESTIC STORE AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350957

• 22 Sept 2021Conditional

  CHANGE OF LOCATION OF PERCOLATION AREA FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PREVIOUS PLANNING REF NO 02/203

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151897

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER 17/51224

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1952021

• 3 Aug 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & POLISHING FILTER AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SERVE THE PROPOSED DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751224

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill SAC 002164
• Special Area of Conservation: Tamur Bog SAC 001992
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tamur Bog 001992

Recorded monuments

• DG104-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 27.9m. An overgrown subcircular area enclosed by a much destroyed earthen bank only surviving on the W, and only 10cms in height. There is also a silted-up fosse and an outer bank surviving in two short stretches to the E and W up to .8m in height. It is situated on a N-S ridge, Knocknarevoge, in cultivated land with good views. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG104-014 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture, broken by karst outcropping. Circular area (24m E–W; 23m N–S) enclosed by slight remnants of a stone bank/wall. The enclosing wall is evident only as a very low-profile, moss- and sod-covered rise (Wth 2-2.7m; H 0.4-0.45m), from which stones protrude randomly at NE–SE. It is barely discernible along the NW arc. The interior is flat and not raised above exterior ground level. Occasional low stones break the surface. There is an enclosure (DG104-015----) 35m to SE in the same field, and another (DG104-016----) c. 100m to NE in an adjoining field. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 May 2015

• DG104-015 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a slight rise, in level pasture broken by karst outcropping. Roughly circular, very slightly raised, stony area (24m E–W; 25m N–S) defined on the perimeter by barely discernible remnants of a wall, evident as a mossy cropmark (Wth 1.5-2m) from which occasional stones protrude. An arc of larger stones protrudes along the perimeter at NE-SE which may be remnants of an original wall facing. The interior is flat, with a very rough, uneven stony surface, broken by seams of limestone. There is an enclosure (DG104-014----) 35m to NW in the same field, and another (DG104-016----) c. 120m to NNE in an adjoining field. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 May 2015

• DG104-016 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, in gently undulating ground, which shelves away gradually for c. 200m to N into a marshy basin occupied by Lough Narath. Immediately to S of the enclosure, the ground dips into a shallow E-W depression, marked by dense rushes, to S of which ground rises again in a terrace of karst. Subcircular area (30.5m WNW–ESE; 27.5m NNE–SSW) defined by a low bank (Wth 2-2.7m; H 0.4m). The bank, which has a broadly slumped profile, is covered by moss and sod which may conceal a stony core. Two moderately large stones, one of which is set perpendicular to the line of the bank, protrude from the bank at SE. The level interior is not noticeably raised above exterior ground level and is marked by low mossy hummocks. A concentration of sod-covered stones occupies a slight dip in the SE quadrant. There is a circular depression (diam. 2m) in the W half. There is an enclosure (DG104-014----) 100m to SW, an enclosure (DG104-015----) 120m to SSW, and another enclosure (DG104-017----) 150m to E. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 May 2015

• DG104-017 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the broad, gently undulating top of a limestone ridge. Immediately to S–SW of the enclosure, the ground dips into a shallow ESE-WNW depression of damp ground which appears to be a natural water course or spring, on S side of which ground level rises again in a terrace of karst. The N side of the ridge is bordered by a marshy basin occupied by Lough Narath, which lies c. 350m to NW. Roughly oval area (c. 38m NE–SW; 27m NW–SE) defined by a low-profile, moss-covered stone bank (Wth 1-2m; H 0.3m). The stone bank is most clearly visible at NW–NE and at SE–SW. It is barely discernible at ENE–SE, and at W. A property wall, on a N–S axis, cuts across the W end of the enclosure. A moss-covered stony area in the E half of the level interior is probably a seam of bedrock. A levelled field boundary, on a NE–SW axis, abuts the enclosing wall at NE, and another remnant of a field boundary extending to W for c. 40m from the SW end of the enclosure. There is an enclosure (DG104-017----) 150m to W, and two other enclosures (DG104-014----; DG104-015----) c. 250m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 May 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tober.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tober.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Tober with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Tober

Area

6,142,958 m² (614.3 ha, 1,517.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Cavangarden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cavangarden electoral division: 464 people in 153 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymagrorty, Barr of Ballynacarrick, Carricknahorna, Garvanagh, Rushen

Placenames

Tober on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.